Hungary 2006 was one of my favourites. First win for Button after years of waiting, first podium for de la Rosa after seemingly being doomed to spend his career as a test driver, with Heidfeld scoring BMW’s first podium as a full team. There haven’t been many podiums where all 3 drivers had something to be genuinely delighted about, and this was…[Read more]

Not sure if I really understand the benefit of this idea. It became harder and harder to identify the drivers thanks to miniscule numbers on the cars, then their ever changing helmet colours, and if the bodywork liveries changed too – what chance would we have?

Found it a bit hard this time around as there are no real stand-out seasons in progress in my opinion.

1. Hamilton
Hasn’t made a lot of mistakes and generally has been performing to the top of his ability this season. It’s almost refreshing to see him perform like this, not riddled with rumors or complaints.

Obviously very happened with the performance in qualifying. Both Ruiz and Wagner have put in some great performances, but the race is another matter. Race pace between the teams has always been a bit more varied, so I won’t hold my breath as yet.

However, going into the first race with the fastest car is not something we have achieved before, so…[Read more]

Glad to see we are among the best of the rest, though I can’t say I’m happy about the gap to the Franklins. I think it shows the power of the budget in the sport. He’s got the money to develop, so much so that having spent all of my budget from last season on this year’s car, it’s still a half second deficit at the first race. I know it’s only…[Read more]

Pretty intriguing qualifying session, if you look at the whole grid. Franklin’s performance might not make for the most exciting headlines, but with Rossi, Lucas and Downton having such a gap between their drivers each, that’s going to make things interesting to follow them in the race. Plus AMR seem to have made a huge leap forward, starting as…[Read more]

Well that is a pleasing result and it is very nice to see pace wise we are pretty close to third place, and also a sign that the pre-season pace wasn’t a mask.
I suppose it is a shame to see that Franklin are ahead (again haha) and by such a margin. Hopefully, the race will be exiting and the Franklin race pace will be a bit slower.

Forcing teams to run one-off liveries sounds just as pointless as banning helmet design changes. It wouldn’t have any real impact on anything whatsoever but would still undoubtedly draw criticism for that very reason.

As far as the one-off liveries teams run due to local advertising laws and countries with specific brands like this lotus livery and this Williams livery teams would have to change the coloring more since the amount they have changed their livery in these two pictures would not qualify.

I am not saying that teams like Ferrari and Williams will have to abandon their traditional colors, they can definitely create a very eye-catching livery while staying true to their colors. Here are two examples of a Ferrari and one of a Williams.